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14 Feb 2017

OtherWordly Makes Splash at Takoma Park Play Day

Community Embraces New Word Game at Mid-Year Play Day This past Sunday, families at Takoma Park’s Seventh Annual Mid-Year Play Day had the opportunity to experience OtherWordly for the first time. Our educational language game drew curious children and parents to our table throughout the afternoon. Words in Space Several children gathered around our iPads […]

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9 Feb 2017

Play OtherWordly at Takoma Park Play Day This Sunday!

Play with the meanings of words, in space! Come by 7500 Maple Ave on Sunday afternoon, at the Takoma Park Community Center (next to the library) for the Seventh Annual Mid-Year Play Day. We’re excited to introduce OtherWordly to our local community! What to Expect As part of IDEA’s commitment to childhood literacy, OtherWordly helps […]

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5 Mar 2014

Gender role literacy: Girls in science?

There are gender wars, and then there are casualties. It wasn’t until 2011 that the behemoth toymaker LEGO acknowledged girls’ desire to build with bricks, even though the company had long before made a seemingly effortless pivot to co-branding, video games, and major motion pictures. So it’s little wonder that girls face all-too-real obstacles when […]

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A way with words IDEA's work promotes literacy and language exploration.

OtherWordly is a unique arcade-style game app that takes you on a galactic quest to connect related words.
In Other Words is an unparalleled pocket language reference designed to give you real-world context and encourage endless brainstorming.
Linguabase is our R&D project that has produced definitions and weighted word relations for over 500,000 terms.

The intersection of education and technology has sparked IDEA’s innovations since 1999.

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